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Tomorrow (Demain) – Documentary Film Screening and Q&A

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

The Center of Applied Liberal Arts (CALA) at the School of Professional Studies (SPS) and the Department of French Literature, Thought, and Culture present a screening of the film Tomorrow (Demain) hosted by filmmaker and scholar Leonard Cortana. Tomorrow is a French documentary about what individuals around the world are doing to help fight current environmental problems. It is being shown as part of CALA's international…

The Abdication Liv Ullmann: A Celebration

Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

Based on the powerful play by Ruth Wolff about Queen Christina, who abdicated the throne to convert to Catholicism, Liv Ullmann and Academy Award-winner Peter Finch (Network) star as a queen and cardinal who share a forbidden love in this compelling true story of lust and power. When Sweden’s Queen Christina decides in 1654 to give up her throne in order…

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“Digital Warriors:” Women’s Activism in a Global Context

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in New York present a screening of the DW documentary "Digital Warriors: Women Changing the World" and a conversation among the activists Masih Alinejad and Aissata Camara, and moderated by Radha Hegde, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU. The conversation will focus on the evolution…

Kristin Lavransdatter: Liv Ullman: a Celebration

Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

In the second film directed by Liv Ullmann (1995), based on the classic novel by Sigrid Undset, Kristin is the daughter of a prominent landowner in medieval Norway, who has grown up in harmony with the ideals of the time: strong family ties, social pride, and devout Christianity. Arranged to be married to the son of another landowner, a violent…

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Film: In the Aisles

Goethe-Institut New York 30 Irving Place, New York City, NY, United States

Our annual holiday party will be held immediately following the film screening. Directed by Thomas Stuber 2018 / 126 minutes When the reclusive Christian (Franz Rogowski, Transit) takes a job working the night shift at a big box store, his new manager, Bruno from the Beverage Department (Peter Kurth, Babylon Berlin), teaches him the lay of the land and the…

Faithless /Trolösa: Liv Ullmann: A Celebration

Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

In this film directed by Liv Ullmann from a screenplay by Ingmar Bergman, loosely based on the legendary Swedish director’s own experiences of adultery, Faithless looks at an aging director named Bergman (Erland Josephson) as he conjures a character, Marianne, and imagines interviewing her about a life-changing affair. As Marianne begins her story, we see the events as they unfold: happily married…

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Splicing cultures: Xiaolu Guo on novels and filmmaking

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

To RSVP, please click here. Xiaolu Guo presents her work in words and film, and draws connections to her own life, in conversation with Carol Gluck. Xiaolu Guo is a British Chinese novelist, essayist and filmmaker. Her memoir, Nine Continents, received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography in 2017. She was an inaugural fellow at the Columbia Institute…

The Sower (Le Semeur)

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

To RSVP, please click here. Following the coup d’état of December 2, 1851, President Louis Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned Emperor Napoleon III, setting off a bloody campaign of repression to root out his opponents. In some regions, entire villages were cleared of their adult male population. Marine Francen’s ravishing first feature uses this historical context and the true story of…

Film Screening & Discussion. And Then We Danced

The Landmark at 57 West 657 West 57th Street, New York

Join the Harriman Institute and Open Society Foundations for a screening of the film And Then We Danced (2020) followed by a panel discussion with the director Levan Akin, Julie George, Visiting Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, and Tanya Domi, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. Film runtime: 1 hour 53 minutes. English subtitles. Click here to purchase tickets…

Dreamed Paths. The Films of Angela Schanelec

Walter Reade Theater 165 West 65th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Angela Schanelec in person February 7 & 8 German director Angela Schanelec’s films have a rhythm and tone all their own—mysterious yet moving, they unearth the metaphysics rumbling beneath the placid surface of everyday life. Her work with actors is like that of no other filmmaker, a radical approach to performance that draws on her own background in theater traditions…